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“Life is full of dead spots. Art gives it life” This quote was said by Irwin Edman, a 20th century philosopher. He mentioned that artists have a way of making life come alive and have been able to do...
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Martin Heidegger – What is Art?
Martin Heidegger was a famous German philosopher from the early to mid 20th Century. His philosophical views were largely based on investigating not what it mean to be a being, but what being in...
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Schopenhauer – Art Definition from Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher most active during the middle 1800s. His work set about to examine whether reason could answer any questions about the world and his primary target of...
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Art is Mastery
“If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.” - Michelangelo While some people can be preternaturally talented artists, knowing immediately how...
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Kant – What is Art
Immanuel Kant, a famous German philosopher who published a very influential work called Critique of Pure Reason, which was an investigation into the nature of reason itself. He felt that only by...
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Art is Creation
Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers: art creates - John Opie Creativity is one of the most important parts that makes an artist. Without the act of creation, no artist exists. Taking...
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George Dickie – Art and Audience
George Dickie, a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois in Chicago, postulated a theory about the relationship between art and the audience meant to receive it. His theory set about to...
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Objectivism – The Role of Art
A form of personal philosophy which was born over the 20th Century by the novelist Ayn Rand, Objectivism takes the views that man is a heroic being whose only true moral purpose during life is his own...
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Art is Provocative
Art is designed to stimulate the senses, to excite people and get them talking and thinking. Some art will do this loudly and some art will do this more subtly, but unless art evokes some reaction...
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Freud and Art
Sigmund Freud is perhaps one of the most famous thinkers of the 20th Century. He made huge strides both in psychology and philosophy, birthing what became the psychoanalytic movement. He made some...
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